block: add sysfs knob for turning off disk entropy contributions
There are two reasons for doing this:
- On SSD disks, the completion times aren't as random as they
are for rotational drives. So it's questionable whether they
should contribute to the random pool in the first place.
- Calling add_disk_randomness() has a lot of overhead.
This adds /sys/block/<dev>/queue/add_random that will allow you to
switch off on a per-device basis. The default setting is on, so there
should be no functional changes from this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 09a8402..b8224ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -467,11 +467,13 @@
#define QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT 15 /* do IO stats */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD 16 /* supports DISCARD */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES 17 /* No extended merges */
+#define QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM 18 /* Contributes to random pool */
#define QUEUE_FLAG_DEFAULT ((1 << QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER) | \
(1 << QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE) | \
- (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP))
+ (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP) | \
+ (1 << QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM))
static inline int queue_is_locked(struct request_queue *q)
{
@@ -596,6 +598,7 @@
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_nonrot(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_io_stat(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_IO_STAT, &(q)->queue_flags)
+#define blk_queue_add_random(q) test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM, &(q)->queue_flags)
#define blk_queue_flushing(q) ((q)->ordseq)
#define blk_queue_stackable(q) \
test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_STACKABLE, &(q)->queue_flags)